Athens police searching for hair extension thief

Athens-Clarke police are looking for a thief with black and gold hair who may be sporting new additions to her locks.

The woman stole two packages of hair extensions from a Jefferson Road store Thursday afternoon after preventing an employee from calling the police.

The woman was browsing the aisles of Linda's Fashions & Beauty Supplies shortly before 5 p.m. and grew annoyed upon noticing an employee was watching her, according to police.

She "became very irate and accused (the employee) of profiling her and began to yell at (the employee) and get in her face," according to a police report.

The employee felt threatened by the customer, police said, and when she picked up a phone to call 911, the suspect grabbed the phone away and then went behind a counter and took two packages of hair extensions, police said.

The woman threw the phone down at the doorway before making her escape in a gold four-door Chevrolet sedan that bore a Georgia license plate with the last four digits 9630, according to police.

The thief was described as a black woman between 5-foot and 5-foot-5, and weighing between 130 and 150 pounds, police said. She had black and gold hair.